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I'm new to Swift, and this is my first iOS application. In fact, I'm fairly new to OO programming. My background is mainframe z/OS. So...
I needed to capture serverModified date in a field. After much googling and trial and error, I finally made the code to parse it out of the MetaData. It works, but is there a slicker way to do this?
Thanks!
Here is the code I used to do it:
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// Check to see if Nvelopes.csv exists in Dropbox and get the servermodified date. dispatchGroup.enter() client!.files.getMetadata(path: "/Nvelopes.csv") .response {response, error in if let (metadataNvelopes) = response { let nsstringMetadataNvelopes = NSString(string: metadataNvelopes.description) var serverModifiedSeparator = "\"server_modified\" = \"" let serverModifiedArray = nsstringMetadataNvelopes.components(separatedBy: serverModifiedSeparator) if serverModifiedArray.count > 0 { print("serverModifiedArray begin") print(serverModifiedArray[0]) print(serverModifiedArray[1]) print("serverModifiedArray end") serverModifiedSeparator = "\";" let ServerModifiedArray = serverModifiedArray[1].components(separatedBy: serverModifiedSeparator) let serverModified = ServerModifiedArray[0] print("serverModified:" , serverModified) } dispatchGroup.leave() } else if let error = error { print("Did not find Nvelopes.csv in Dropbox:") print(error.description) dispatchGroup.leave() }
Here's the recommended way to get the serverModified out of a Metadata object given by filesGetMetadata:
client!.files.getMetadata(path: path) .response {response, error in if let (metadata) = response { switch metadata { case let fileMetadata as Files.FileMetadata: print("File metadata: \(fileMetadata)") let serverModified = fileMetadata.serverModified print("File serverModified: \(serverModified)") case let folderMetadata as Files.FolderMetadata: print("Folder metadata: \(folderMetadata)") // folders don't have serverModified case let deletedMetadata as Files.DeletedMetadata: print("Deleted entity's metadata: \(deletedMetadata)") // deleted entries don't have serverModified default: print("default") } } else if let error = error { print(error) } }
This method can return metadata for files, folders, or deleted items, so you need to check the type first, done here using the switch, since the latter two don't have serverModified.
Hope this helps!
Thanks, Greg! So much cleaner!
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